Casting splasher



Feb. 5, 1963 e. ADAMS CASTING SPLASHER Filed May 4, 1961 IN VEN TOR.

United States Patent O 3,076,284 CASTING SPLASHER George L. Adams, 422W. Maple St., Compton, Calif. Filed May 4, 1961, Ser. No. 107,701 1Claim. (Cl. 433-431) This invention relates to new casting splashers andto their method of production. As is known to fishermen, a splasher issecured at one end to the casting line and carries on its other end theleader, hook and whatever else is used to interest a fish. The splasher,generally a more or less oblong body, is intended to hit the water insuch way as to attract nearby fish. Presumably on the theory that theywill mistake it for another fish leaping for food, it is hoped they willhurry to the spot to share the same and will consequently encounter thehook and line with a gratifying result to the fisherman.

After being cast, it is desirable that the splasher then float in amanner or position to most satisfactorily suspend the leader and hookbehind it, and perhaps by its continuing position in the water tofurther attract fish. Consequently, in addition to the shape of thesplasher, there are problems of weighting or balancing it both forcasting and for floating.

Accordingly I have developed an essentially bulletshaped splasher having(1) beneficial air-flow characteristics for casting due to its conicforward end, (2) by reason of its opposite perpendicular, flat endproducing a maximum splash upon emergence after initial submergence inthe water nose-first, and (3) being weighted at thenose so as to disposeit upright when floating as well as to ensure that after first sinkingit will return to the Water surface with its flat end substantiallyparallel thereto so as to cause the greatest splash. I have furthereffected a highly efficient method of incorporating in such structure anaxial attachment member for opposite-end connection respectively to thecasting line and to the leader, desirably in each case by anintermediate swivel.

Consequently the objects of the invention include the production of suchimproved splashers of highly effective design and operation, which canbe fabricated economically and produced in quantity with predictablyconsistent utility and durability.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as the descriptionproceeds, having particular reference to the accompanying drawings of apresently preferred embodiment of the invention wherein FIGURE 1 is alongitudinal sectional view of my splasher in its vertically floatingposition in the water with the axial attachment rod and connectedswivels seen in elevation;

FIGURE 2 is a vertical sectional view thru the splasher body at rightangles to FIGURE 1, as viewed along the line 2-2;

FIGURE 3 is a top plan view of the splasher body as seen along the line3-3 of FIGURE 1; and

FIGURE 4 is a transverse sectional view thru the nose end of thesplasher taken along the line 4-4 of FIGURE 1.

The splasher is desirably made of wood and painted white for the benefitof the fish, although other material could be used. The shape however isfairly similar to a bullet or torpedo, with a conic forward end or nose12 .tapering back to a generally cylindrical body 14 which terminates ina perpendicular, flat, disk-shaped end 16. The nose 12 has a blunt end18 of small diameter, which is axially counterbored 20 for aconsiderable distance.

The splasher is then drilled somewhat angularly from the disk end 16 toform a longitudinal bore 22 which enters the inner end of thecounterbore 2t); and a shorter, generally perpendicular closed-end bore24 is also drilled inward from the flat end 16, approximately parallelto the angular bore.

A longitudinal rod 26 having one end turned back to form an elongatedeye 28 and with a swivel 30 hung on the eye, is then inserted lengthwisejointly thru the counterbore 20 and the angular bore 22 until the innerend of the eye 34 abuts against the end wall 36 of the counterbore, withthe opposite rod terminus 32 projecting straight beyond the disk end 16.

A swivel 38 is then mounted over the rod end 32 and the latter bent backand inserted part way into the dead-end bore 24. This causes the lowereye 28 (of approximately equal length) to project part way out of thecounterbore (which is about twice such length). The rod 26 being held insuch position, the counterbore is then filled with fluid ballast ormolten metal 40, such as lead, which is allowed to solidify, servingboth to anchor the rod securely in place and to balance the striker forfloating in a vertical position. In this connection it is important tonote that the volume of the counterbore is calculated (in addition tohaving a diameter adapted to receive the width of the eye 28) to containa predetermined weight or quantity of ballast 40, which is selected tofloat the striker at a designated water level, which may be indicated bya score line or mark 42 on the side.

Thus, as seen in FIGURE 1, after the striker 10 has been cast into thewater 44 nose first by means of the swivel-connected line 46, theinitially submerged striker then rises to the illustrated floatingposition with its flat disk-end 16 out of the water, and its dependentswivel 30 suspending a leader (not shown) holding a dangling hook (notshown). The oppositely projecting eye loops 50, 52 ensure that if theoriginal swivels 30, 38 be severed therefrom, other coupling elementscan be secured thereto and the striker maintained in service.

I claim:

A casting splasher comprising an elongated body cylindrical in shape forat least one half of its length and with a generally frustro-conicalnose on one end and a discshaped flat opposite end, the nose end beingformed with an axial counterbore, the flat end of the body having formedtherein a pair of substantially parallel bores displaced equally onopposite sides of the center of the flat end, one bore extending at anangle to the longitudinal axis of said body and into the counterbore,the other bore being relatively shorter than the angular bore, alongitudinal rod disposed jointly through the counterbore and theconnected angular bore and having a U-turned end inserted in said shortbore and an elongated eye formed on the other end of the rod anddisposed partly within and partly projecting from said counterbore whenthe U-turned end is in the short bore, the projecting end of the eyehaving a U-shaped terminal end for supporting a swivel at the axis ofthe body, and ballast being positioned in the remaining area of thecounterbore with the eye projecting centrally from the counterbore, saidballast 8,076,284 3 4 being adapted to dispose the splasher to floatupright 2,518,634 Peterson Aug. 15, 1950 in the water with its flat endprojecting therefrom, where- 2,605,576 Young et a1 l Aug. 5, 1952 by themain portion of a two section fish line can be 2,691,842 Brown Oct. 19,1954 secured to the U-turned end of the rod and the other 2,694,844Grumbach Nov. 23, 1954 portion to the swivel. 5 2,740,226 Arff Apr. 3,1956 References Cited in the file of this patent 2753651 Flsher July1956 UNITED STATES PATENTS FOREIGN PATENTS 1,512,656 Ward Oct. 21, 1924757,512 Great Britain Sept. 19, 1956 2,498,815 McVay Feb. 28, 1950 10

